Travel Palette Watercolor Study Poster
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Travel Palette Watercolor Study Poster

Arrange each travel photo into a separate 2:3 vertical observation page: at the top, keep the high-fidelity photo; below, use a selective watercolor study, travel archive text, and exactly three hand-painted color swatches derived from the photo to form a restrained editorial layout.

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Prompt

Please turn each photo I upload into a separate premium travel palette watercolor study poster, with each photo output on its own and no multi-image collage. The whole piece must be completed in a single image generation, without code-based compositing.

Overall, use a 2:3 vertical composition on warm ivory natural watercolor paper as the full canvas. The page contains four mutually echoing parts: a high-fidelity original photo, a same-scene watercolor study, travel archive text, and three hand-painted color swatches extracted from the photo.

Overall, keep large areas of unpainted paper, like a carefully organized travel observation note page, rather than an information-dense color chart or an ordinary top-bottom split template.

## Original Photo

Place a large, high-fidelity original photo at the top of the page, occupying about 44%–48% of the page height and 86%–90% of its width.

Keep a narrow, even ivory photo-paper border around the photo, and use a very fine warm-gray outline to create a restrained postcard or archival photo-mounting feel.

The photo must faithfully preserve from the uploaded image:

- subject identity and number of subjects
- pose of people or animals
- buildings, terrain, roads, and water surfaces
- core objects and viewing angle
- relative positions and spatial relationships
- real materials and natural light and shadow
- original color atmosphere

Apply only very slight premium travel-publication color grading and thin film grain.

Do not move, replace, or redesign the subject; do not add or remove people, change building structures, reshape terrain, mirror, duplicate, stretch, or distort the image.

To fit the photo frame, you may naturally extend the sky, ground, or environment edges, but do not fill with a blurred copy of the photo.

## Watercolor Study

In the lower right area of the page, reinterpret the same photo as a restrained-size hand-painted watercolor observation sketch, occupying about 54%–62% of the page width and 26%–32% of its height.

The watercolor study must keep the most important subject, outline, pose, direction, terrain, and narrative relationships of the original photo, so viewers can recognize the original scene at a glance.

However, do not fully replicate the photo's framing, subject proportions, or information density.

First select one to three of the most recognizable visual anchors from the photo, then reduce, crop, and reorganize them. Actively remove complex backgrounds, photographic light and shadow, fine textures, repeated structures, and irrelevant clutter.

Adapt by subject type:

- Natural landscapes: keep the relationship of mountains and water, shorelines, terrain direction, tree groves, and weather character
- Architectural scenes: keep the most distinctive roofs, facades, door and window proportions, roads, and surrounding plants
- Urban scenes: keep street direction, key buildings, vehicles, and a few person relationships
- People or animals: keep number, pose, hairstyle, main clothing colors, and key props, with facial features de-emphasized
- Still lifes and travel objects: keep overall silhouette, main material colors, openings, handles, and iconic structures

The watercolor must have a real, loose, selective hand-painted quality:

transparent watercolor layers, controlled wash, cold-pressed paper grain, dry-brush edges, broken pigment, subtle granulation, uneven pigment pooling, partially exposed paper, unfinished dissolving margins, restrained loose ink or pencil traces.

Watercolor edges must not form a complete rectangle, and must not cover the whole background.

Let parts of clouds, trees, roads, mountains, buildings, or figure outlines break off naturally and dissolve into the paper. Pigment may overlap locally, but must not turn the whole page into a large transparent watercolor wash.

The watercolor study should be lighter and sparser than the photo, and clearly differ from the photo above in subject scale, crop, background retention, and information density.

You may add one or two very small, very faint local observations, such as a cloud, a tree branch, a roof section, a bird, a street lamp, or an iconic object.

These elements must come from the original photo, must not add unrelated decoration, and must not form a second visual center.

## Travel Archive Text

In the lower left area, set a narrow, restrained column of travel archive information, keeping a clear distance from the watercolor and not overlapping it.

Place in order:

"[three-digit number, e.g. 001]"

a very short thin horizontal line

"[1—3个英文单词的地点或主题标题]"

"Postcard Study"

"LOCATION" and a blank writing line

"DATE" and a blank writing line

Set the number in very small vintage letterpress or monospaced type.

Set the English main title in small, widely letterspaced, high-contrast serif capitals.

Set "Postcard Study" in smaller italic serif.

Set "LOCATION" and "DATE" in very small uppercase sans-serif.

All text uses gentle charcoal or deep grayish-brown, kept accurate, clear, and restrained.

If the user does not provide a number, a three-digit number may be used automatically.

The title should be derived from the photo's real location, architecture, subject, or theme. If the specific location cannot be confirmed, use a general scene title; do not invent place names.

LOCATION and DATE default to blank writing lines; do not fill in fictional information.

Apart from the text above, do not add brands, logos, author names, URLs, QR codes, long copy, or irrelevant annotations.

## Three Swatches

Below the archive text, place exactly three separate hand-painted watercolor swatches.

Arrange the three swatches horizontally, similar in size and evenly spaced, with no text labels, color codes, HEX values, or Pantone numbers.

The three colors must each be extracted from the current original photo:

1. One color that best represents the main subject or dominant environmental color of the scene
2. One dark color responsible for structure, shadow, and spatial depth
3. One light or accent color responsible for air, highlights, or the place's character

Each photo must be newly analyzed and its colors newly selected; do not apply a fixed swatch set to all works.

The swatches should look like brush color tests painted directly on paper:

- irregular hand-painted rectangles
- dry-brush edges
- variation in pigment density
- slight transparency
- visible paper grain
- a small amount of pigment settling

Do not make them clean digital squares, UI components, colored circles, or printed color chips.

Exactly three swatches must appear: not more, not fewer.

## Paper and Overall Quality

The background uses warm ivory, off-white, or pale cream natural watercolor paper, with visible fibers, fine paper flecks, slight color variation, matte grain, and cold-press paper texture.

Paper texture runs across the whole page and is clearly visible in large areas of white space.

The photo, watercolor, archive text, and swatches should form a clear but relaxed editorial order.

The premium feel comes from real photography, selective watercolor translation, accurate color extraction, paper breathing room, and fine typography, not complex decoration.

The overall look should resemble an independent travel magazine, an architectural observation booklet, an artist's travel notes, or a boutique postcard study page.

The mood is light, clear, gentle, restrained, memorable, and collectible.

Style keywords: travel palette postcard study, editorial photo and watercolor field note, source-derived color swatches, selective watercolor translation, cold-pressed paper grain, dry-brush palette cards, archival travel typography, extreme ivory negative space, refined postcard layout, handmade visual research page.

Avoid: generic color-palette infographic, more or fewer than three swatches, hex codes, Pantone labels, colored circles, UI color chips, digital rectangles, sticker layout, scrapbook clutter, adhesive tape, push pins, torn-paper collage, multiple unrelated photos, full-page watercolor wash, photorealistic watercolor copy, same-crop same-scale redraw, automatic photo filter, cartoon landscape, flat vector illustration, smooth gradients, 3D objects, fake handwriting, excessive captions, invented location, fake date, author name, logo, watermark, frame or product mockup.

Most important rules: the top must faithfully preserve the original photo; the lower part must reinterpret the same scene as a selective watercolor study that has been reduced, cropped, and actively pared down, and must truly extract exactly three hand-painted swatches from the current photo. The swatches are not decoration but a real summary of the photo's main color, structural dark color, and air or accent color; the watercolor is not a photo filter, and must not follow the full composition of the photo above at the same proportions as a redraw.

How to use

Usage tip: Upload a travel photo. You may supply your own number; if the location and date are uncertain, leave them blank to avoid having the model invent a place name or date.

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